2007 Minnesota Statutes

348.13 BOUNTIES PAID BY TOWNS, REQUIREMENTS.
The four feet of striped and gray gophers and woodchucks, and both front feet of pocket
gophers shall be produced to the chair of the town board of the town where they were killed, and
if the chair shall be satisfied that they were killed within the designated territory and by the person
producing them, the chair shall certify to the county auditor the number of each kind so killed.
The certificate shall be issued by the chair of the town board at the end of each month and shall
show the names of all persons entitled to bounty for the preceding month, the number of each
kind of animals killed, and the amount of bounty that each person is entitled to receive. The
county auditor shall issue thereon a warrant on the county treasurer payable to the chair of the
town board who issued the certificate, for the full amount of the bounty allowed by law according
to the certificate, and upon receipt of the warrant the chair shall pay the proper persons the bounty
allowed by law for the preceding month.
The chair to whom such feet are produced shall immediately cause such feet to be destroyed.
Any town board may also offer a bounty for the destruction of the animals described in
section 348.12 and adopt rules for the payment thereof, which bounty so offered by a town shall
be in addition to any bounty which may be offered by the board of county commissioners.
The town board of any town located in any county having over 45,000 and less than 49,000
inhabitants according to the 1950 federal census, may by resolution require that the tail instead
of the feet of striped, gray and pocket gophers be produced.
History: (6260) RL s 2403; 1909 c 48 s 2; 1911 c 220 s 1; 1915 c 357 s 1; 1917 c 290 s 1;
1955 c 545 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 101 s 2; 1992 c 464 art 1 s 38; 1994 c 465 art 1 s 46